Adella feels trapped under the punishing rule of the power-hungry and corrupt queen, her mother – a woman fanatically bent on ruling the world even at the possible expense of humanity itself. Although she is one of the heirs to the throne Adella has no desire for power, and when she falls for one of her mother’s enemies she knows she must escape to save her own life, and possibly the lives of her subjects. Her only hope is to find the Wise Ones, a group of the world’s greatest former inventors and scientists, of whom she is deeply suspicious and fearful. But would an alliance with them to topple the queen be enough to save humanity … and the whole world? A young adult romance in a dystopian society set in the nearfuture, starring a royal princess as the female protagonist.